Kaihautū Tira Kohinga Raraunga Team Leader

Lead a fantastic team in our critical national data collection effort
- Location - Otago/ Southland
- Permanent Full-time position
- Bring your leadership, creativity, ideas, and solution focussed mindset to drive outputs
- Showcase your skills in a business that values coaching and mentoring

Mōu | For you
Tatauranga Aotearoa Stats NZ are dedicated to diversity, equity, inclusion, health and wellbeing. We welcome every gender, ethnicity, ability, religion, age and background and encourage people to be their authentic selves.

**Salary**: $ 80,067- $ 94,197 + superannuation
- Flexible by default, balance life and work commitments with regular WFH options
- Develop and grow your career (coaching, training, study support, secondments)
- Contribute to meaningful work that makes a difference to all people in Aotearoa
- 3 extra annual leave days (taken during Christmas office closure), see careers site for other benefits and networks
- Work remotely with the option to work from city-based offices that cater to a variety of working styles and needs

Te tūnga | The role
As Team Leader Data Collection, you will report to the Manager Data Collection to support the day-to-day leadership of a Data Collection team. You are first and foremost a people leader and your role will include motivating, coaching, and directing an integrated, multi-modal team of up to 20 that supports the wider Data Collection team to achieve the best possible outcomes for our customers and suppliers. Developing and maintaining strong links with internal stakeholders, including the design, planning and data collection teams are key.

**You will also**:

- Build effective and high performing teams
- Be responsible for data collection practices within a multi-modal team, managing escalations, audits, training and coaching
- Develop and maintain links with communities and customers
- Lead day to day operation, including allocating local and national work to your team members
- Facilitate effective communication, as a remote leader, with all internal & external key stakeholders
- Take responsibility for the health, safety, and wellbeing management of your team

Nōu te rourou | What you bring
We encourage and consider transferable skills and experience gained from outside of work e.g., cultural, community work, sports, volunteering, or a comparable role in a different sector or industry.
Ideally you will have the experience and will be able to demonstrate:

- Why Tatauranga Aotearoa - Stats NZ is the place for you, why us, and why Government?
- Examples of strong relationships you've built and how and why relationships are important.
- Examples where you've demonstrated leadership, e.g. lifted others up, led by example, demonstrated problem solving, owned a project or piece of work, spoken up for yourself or others.
- Examples where you've shown curiosity and tried new things, taken on other perspectives, challenged the norm, reflected on your own and other's behaviours, attitudes or motivations to learn.
- Where you've demonstrated customer centricity, 'everyone is a customer' mentality, collaborated with others and invited feedback, spent time with diverse people and communities to broaden your views.
- How you've demonstrated or encouraged diversity and inclusion in and/or outside of work.
- Knowledge and experience, or desire to learn and build knowledge and experience of Te Tiriti, Tikanga, Te Reo and Te Ao Māori, and engagement with Māori.
- Possess a relevant tertiary qualification and/or comparable relevant experience
- Proven experience managing both team and individual performance and capability development
- Experience working with CRM systems, Work Allocation tools or concepts and telephony software, i.e., Salesforce, PureCloud and Excel
- Proven experience working in a service delivery environment
- Understands the end-to-end data collection process with sound knowledge of key legislation around people leadership, including the Employment Relations Act, and the Health and Safety at Work Act.
- Be available to travel domestically as required, have reliable internet access, a current driver's licence and a fully insured, reliable vehicle that can be used for work purposes

Ko mātou | About Us
Tatauranga Aotearoa - Stats NZ is a Central Government employer of around 1400 people across Aotearoa. We provide data and statistical outputs to support the decisions that the Government, Māori and Iwi organisations, businesses, NGOs and New Zealanders make every day. Our work is About Aotearoa, for Aotearoa - data that improves lives today and for generations to come.
This role is based within our Collection Operations Team, which is a nationally based team of around 400 staff who collect the data New Zealand needs.
Me pēhea te tuku tono | How to apply

We encourage you to go to our careers site to learn more about working at Tatauranga Aotearoa Stats NZ.
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